Software Product Owner

The Product Owner leads a team to discover and deliver a product that creates meaningful value for stakeholders and users. Facilitate decision-making in service of shipping successful features. Clearly understand users, what they need, what impact the business expects from the product, manage stakeholder expectation and collaborate closely with the product team. 

Roles and Responsibilities: 

• Prioritize SW Product Features 
• Establish an Outcome Oriented Product Roadmap, Manage the Backlog, Produce Portfolio, Program and Team Metrics in Application Lifecycle Management tool (Atlassian Jira and Confluence) 
• Collaborate with Engineers on Test-driven development, Pair programming, Evolutionary design, Collective code ownership, Retros, Short iterations, CI/CD 
• Define and articulate product vision, strategy and roadmap Define business model Define Minimum Viable Product Identify and test assumptions Release real product often Understand customers Adjust direction based on data Constrain resources and time 
• Collaborate with Product Design on User interviews, Ethnography, Define personas, Usability testing, Service design, UI/UX Visual design 
• Understand and prioritize work creating and managing container pipelines within Tanzu or have supported an existing environment 
• Coordinate with Cybersecurity to resolve items on POA&M 
• Experience working in a DOD and Agile Development environment that combines Lean, Scrum and XP frameworks 
• Understanding of cloud architecture 
• Ability to correlate requirements to specific tasking 
• Familiarity with JIRA, User Stories and updating Jira tickets to with appropriate levels of content 
• Experience with documentation (Atlassian Confluence) 

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice. 

Desired/Required Skills: 

• 4-6 years years of Software Product Manager/Owner experience
• 4+ years of programming experience working as a Software Product Manager/Owner Experience working with with developers using Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 2+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems 
• Bachelors of Science degree in Engineering, Physics, Network Security, Computer Science, or Information Systems (or at least Ten (10) years of hands-on experience with Marine Corps/Navy/DoD systems validation experience) 
• Experience working on a development team and proven experience designing desktop applications
• Experience designing concepts and drawings to determine the best product 
• Secret clearance or higher preferred
• 8570 compliance (Active Security and OS certifications)
• Experience improving existing product designs and analyzing working concepts.
• Experience with a range of automation and configuration management tools including but not limited to Ansible, SCCM, Jenkins, Puppet, or others
• Support standard Agile ritual meetings (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Grooming, Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives) as necessary and assist Scrum teams in execution of Sprints. 

About the Company:

NexGen Data Systems is an emerging technologies focused company providing expert systems and network engineering solutions to the Department of Defense. NexGen Data Systems promotes a culture of knowledge and career advancement through continued learning, keeping our team current on the latest advances in systems and networking, and enabling our team to provide the best available solutions to our clients.

Benefits:

• Company covers 100% of premiums for the employee’s medical, dental, and vision insurance and subsidizes premiums for spouse and dependents.
• Company provides short and long term disability plans.
• 401(k) match up to 10% of the employee’s salary contributions to 401(K) plan.
• Comprehensive training and development program.
• 11 paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) accrual level starts at 15 days annually.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

NOTE: US Citizens and those authorized to work in the US are encouraged to apply. In order to be qualified for this position, you must be able to obtain and maintain a United States Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance. We are unable to sponsor Visas at this time. NexGen Data Systems provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.